Cyclone dust collector



Oct. 2, 1951 v. MUSKA 2,569,865

CYCLONE DUST COLLECTOR Filed Aug. 21, 1947 INVENTOR- Vou'rs cH MU SKA Patented Oct. 2, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GYCLONE DUST COLLECTOR Vojtech Muska, Astoria, N. Y.

Application August 21, 1947, Serial No. 769,791

1 Claim This invention relates to an improved means and method of lteringair, for eliminating dust of all kinds. which fills the air in factories, mills aud other industrial places.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a method for circulating dust laden or dust dharged air Within a circuit to .cause automatic and progressive. .deposition of the dust particles, so that dust, such as that produced in flour, wood, plastic and chemical mills or factories may be separated from the air, with minimum use of filtering mediums constructed to intercept dust particles..

Another object of the invention is the provision of a method for circulating dust charged air in a miniature cyclonic path, to produce a reverse iiow and deposition at the point of ow reversal.

Another object of the invention is to provide an apparatus having a material filtering medium. such as cloth or the like, adapted to collect dust from iiowing air. with an air circuit constructed to provide a miniature cyclonic flow of the air, to cause the major portion of the dust to settle below in a collecting receiver, and the rest of the dust to be separated by the filtering medium, through which the iinal flow of the air takes place.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved air cleaning apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view. taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is a similar view. taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawings, I designates a cylinder or other form of a tank or containing body, which is provided with a bottom chamber II', and an upper chamber I2, having a screen I3 suitably supported at the upper end thereof. which may be of conventional construction.

The upper chamber I2 is separated from the lower chamber by means of the horizontal screen Il, and in the lower chamber II an automatic air cleaning device I5 is arranged. This device has an outer frusto-conical wall I6, and

an inner frusta-conical wall I1, which is spaced inwardly of the outer wall I6, by the integral ring I8.

The space I9 between the outer wall I6 and the inner wall Il receives air from the external pipe or conduit 20. which extends through the wall of the cylinder or tank I0, and the entire automatic cleaning device I5 is supported on the wall of the tank or cylinder lll as by welding 2|.

The outer wall I E is provided with a central discharge opening 22. under which a dust receiver 23 is positioned. The inner wall Il is provided with a discharge .Opening 24, which is located in a horizontal plane directly above the discharge opening 22. and which is spaced therefrom a distance shown to, be less than one haii of the entire vertical depth .of the separator I5.

The outer wall I6 thus provides a downwardly narrowing path v25, whieh receives the dust laden or dust charged air at` its. .upper and larger end from the conduit 20. The air is forced through the conduit 20 by means of a pressure device which may be a rotary blower, and due to the downwardly increasing resistance in the path 25, between the inner and outer wall. develops back pressure directly over the lower discharge opening 22. The lower end of the outer wall I6 is disposed in close relation to the receiver 23, so that there is no opening provided for the escape of the air at this point.

The space 21 within the inner wall I 1 and above the upper discharge opening 24 progressively enlarges upwardly, and the air which rises from the discharge opening 24 to ow through the bottom screen I4, and thence through the filtering medium 28, arranged in the upper chamber I2, loses velocity as it flows through a constantly enlarging passage area.

As the upwardly flowing air loses velocity due to the increase in the area of the vertical passage 2l, dust which is kept in suspension falls downwardly and passes through the two discharge openings into the dust receiver.

The air stream is rst forced to flow downwardly through a passage which progressively narrows in area, and is then automatically reversed to flow upwardly through a passage which progressively enlarges in area. This reversal of the direction of ilow of air stream, causes conilicting air currents to be set up over the discharge openings, and settlement or deposition of dust carried by the air results, when the loss cf velocitv deprives the dust particles.

The dust charge air supply enters the primary circuit path 25 tangentially, so that a downward spinning motion is imparted to the air stream, which causes the dust particles to be thrown by centrifugal action against the inner surface of the outer wall I6, and the friction of this wall produces a dragging eiect on the dust particles, and thus aids in their separation from the moving air stream, and the separated dust particles slide downwardly into the dust receiver.

There is a material drop of velocity of the air stream, in the zone directlyA between the upper and'lower discharge opening, due to the fact that at this zone the air of the outer passagev is increased, and then the loss of velocity continues above the upper discharge opening.

The entire separating action within the lower chamber of the air cleaning device is automatic, and continuous, and is completed by the action of the filtering cloths or medium in the upper chamber, which separate extremely ne particles of dust which are not released by the reverse flow and centrifugal action 'of the lower chamber'.

The loading of the filtering medium is accordingly reduced to a. minimum, so that its eiective life is greatly prolonged.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as dened in the appended claim.

Having thus described-my invention', what I claim as new, -and desire'to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

A cyclone for use in a dust separator having an elongated tubular body with a screen mounted in the body intermediate of its ends forming an upper compartment and a lower compartment and a lter within the upper compartment and resting on the screen, said cyclone com- 4 prising an outer frusto-conical wall mounted within the lower compartment with its base uppermost and having an apex discharge opening for dust positioned slightly above the bottom end of the lower compartment, a smaller inner frusto-conical wall positioned concentrically within said outer frusto-conical wall with its base uppermost and on a common level with the base Aof said'outer frusto-conical wall, a ring between the bases of said frustof-conical walls supporting said inner wall from said outer wall, said inner wall having a discharge opening for v air at a level above and concentric with the discharge opening of said outer wall, a conduit for discharging dust laden air tangentially into the space between the base ends of said frusto-conical walls, a dust receiving container positioned within REFERENCES CITEDl The following references are of record i'n the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES-PATENTS Number Name Date 1,426,177 Garner Aug. 15, 1922 1,761,377 Waring June 3, 1930 2,026,834

Holly Jan. 7, 1936 

